Alcalá, Rosa

Lila Zemborain and Rosa Alcalá

November 19, 2009

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Rodney Phillips

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Rosa Alcalá

January 30, 2020

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Patri Hadad

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Readings from this author

January 28, 2023 - Cecilia Vicuña with Rosa Alcalá and Daniel Borzutzky

Poet and performance artist Cecilia Vicuña joins with poets and translators Daniel Borzutzky and Rosa Alcalá to read at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in honor of Vicuña's exhibit Sonoran Quipu. Borzutzky and Alcalá both read forthcoming work, as well as pieces by Vicuña they have translated into English. Vicuña reads and improvises from Spit Temple (2012), a selection of past performances transcribed, edited, and translated by Alcalá.

January 30, 2020 - Rosa Alcalá

Rosa Alcalá reads from her translations of Cecilia Vicuña's poetry presented in New and Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña (2018). She also reads uncollected poems of her own. This reading was given as part of the Hannelore Quander-Rattee Works-in-Translation Series.

November 20, 2009 - Lila Zemborain and Rosa Alcalá Colloquium

Colloquium on translation featuring poets Lila Zemborain and Rosa Alcalá.

November 19, 2009 - Lila Zemborain and Rosa Alcalá

Lila Zemborain and Rosa Alcalá present their work as part of the Poetry Center's Fall 2009 sequence of themed readings, "Oh Earth, Wait for Me: Conversations about Art and Ecology." In the first half of the reading, Zemborain reads poems in Spanish and Alcalá reads their translations in English. Next, Alcalá reads her own poems. The performance closes with a poem read simultaneously in English and Spanish.

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